What’s the worst slap in the face you’ve seen in a high school football game? Mine is now the behind-the-back 2-point conversion pass that took place in Baton Rouge a couple weeks ago. What was the coach thinking? Up 13-0 (en route to 58-0), why is the coach letting these kids go for 2…and throwing [...]
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Is holding hands ‘hazing’ in football?
What do high school football parents, players and administrators think of gay people? Exhibit No. 692 comes to us from Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. It seems two players got into a little shoving match at practice recently. As penance, the coach made them run a lap holding hands. Cute, right? They weren’t getting [...]
Worst way to lose a football game ever
This might be the most excruciating way to possibly lose a football game. I can’t think of a worse one I’ve ever seen, though the commentators said something about an Iowa-Northern Iowa game. To make the play of the year and then to forget one crucial detail…I feel so bad for the white team and [...]
Cheerleaders in trouble for Jesus banners
A Chattanooga, Tenn., area cheerleading team has been ordered to stop printing Bible verses and religious messages on banners at school football games. Since 2003, the Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School team has displayed messages like “Commit to the Lord” and the banner to the right featuring a passage from the Book of Phillippians in the [...]
Team DC’s 2009 scholarship winner
Washington DC’s gay Metro Weekly had a nice article last week about the recipient of Team DC’s 2009 student-athlete scholarship. In its second year, the scholarship goes to a self-identified gay athlete. This year’s winner was swimmer and tennis player Clayton Miller (right, with one of last year’s winners Michael Hull) from Wakefield High School. [...]
‘Bruno’ bonds with high school football team
Los Angeles Unified School District officials are upset, the L.A. Times reports, that members of the Birmingham High football team participated in a photo shoot with “Bruno,” the flamboyantly gay character played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. (Some photos below).
A slide show on the GQ website shows Cohen cavorting with the uniformed players while wearing [...]
Quick hits: Tiger, Lakers, Nadal, Pacman
After two months of “Tiger Woods is finished” talk, Woods comes back from 4 shots down to win the Memorial. Welcome to two weeks of “Tiger Woods is immortal” talk. Soon to be followed by “Tiger Woods is finished” talk.
L.A. Lakers win NBA championship.
Nadal’s coach claims the defending champ is doubtful for Wimbledon. Really??
Is Jerry [...]
A lesbian coach, her firing and sheep feces
A Maine jury will have to decide whether a high school softball coach was fired because she is a lesbian or because she made her team walk through sheep feces as part of a hazing ritual. A Maine court said this week that a jury would have to decide why Kelly Jo Cookson was not [...]
Gay football novel wins Lambda Lit Award
Congratulations to lontime Outsports friend Bill Konigsberg, who won a Lambda Literary Award last night for his book about a gay high school football player, Out of the Pocket. The award was for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult. Bill’s been on the forefront of gay visibility in the sports media since he came out at ESPN in [...]
Gay high school swimmer’s lust for teammate
Thanks to a reader for this head’s-up of an entertaining call on a Podcast (Episode 136) by Dan Savage (”Savage Love”).
The caller: A self-described totally out high school swimmer and water polo player in California. His whole team knows he’s gay and has no problem with it.
The problem: He has no boyfriend and his hormones [...]
What did you think of ‘Glee’?
The gays seem to be all atwitter about the pilot for the new series Glee that Fox aired after American Idol tonight. It seems many of them are relating to the themes of being picked on by jocks and singing songs from Grease. I had been excited for it as the previews looked great, but [...]
Corey Johnson, 10 years later
It was 10 years ago that high school football player Corey Johnson came out to his team in Massachusetts, and Corey marked that anniversary recently with an appearance at the GLSEN Boston conference. Bay Windows caught up with him and asked why his story got so much attention nine years ago:
Part of it was timing. [...]
Quick hits: NBA, Greinke, boys vs. girls
Last year’s NBA Finalists both lose homecourt advantage Monday night. Magic top Celtics, Rockets top Kobe Lakers.
So much for the SI jinx: Kansas City Royal Zach Greinke (he was on the cover) improves to 6-0 with another shutout. Could his season be legendary?
Indiana to allow girls to try out for boys’ baseball. I wonder what [...]
Morning hits: No-no, Celts, Torry Holt
High schooler throws fourth consecutive no-hitter. “I never thought this would happen,” he said. “I’m just having so much right now.”
Celtics stave off complete and utter meltdown and lose Powe for remainder of the playoffs.
Torry Holt is a Jacksonville Jaguar.
Top-seeded Sharks freaking out over 0-2 deficit?
Africans again dominate Boston Marathon.
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Heads to roll over volleyball hazing?
At Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Calif., near Los Angeles, heads may roll over an alleged hazing incident that reportedly featured the volleyball team holding down a freshman and sodomizing him with a sex toy. Six school staff members are being accused of knowing about the incident and not reporting it, so they have [...]
